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COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL 

ILLUSTRATED 



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PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE PUBLICITY COMMITTEE, 

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FACTORIES OF THE LARKIX CO. YESTERDAY .\XD TO-D.\Y 

World's I.araest Manufactorj' of Sonps. Perfume.=. Toilet Preparation.s. ami Pure Food Specialties. Over 65.000 Visitors Annuall 




PLANT OF THE PIERCE- ARROW MOTOR CAR COMPANY 

Maniifactvirers of Motor Cars an<l Trucks. This plant occupies fifteen acres of rrrountl and has one million, sixteen thousand, four 

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THE story of the building up of Buffalo is so won- 
derful as to be the cause of issuing this publi- 
cation in order that all who read it may learn 
for themselves why and how this city has forged to the 
front and is now among the 
leaders of big American mu- 
nicipalities in all lines of urban 
activities. 

This, and* the fact that 
Buffalo's remarkable record 
has been achieved within a 
period of less than a decade, 
makes the story not only of 
interest but one of great value 
to all persons who have lo\-e 
of their cities, and, inspired by 
a spirit of municipal pride, de- 
sire to make the most of what 
they have for the betterment of 
all parts of this domain, 

Buffalo's remarkable growth and exceptionally fine 




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leir fellow citizens in 



future prospects did not just happen. The growth made 
within the past ten years — ^yes, within the past five 
years — could not have been achieved naturally anv 
more than one could expect a beautiful garden to grow 
of its own accord in a rich 
river bottom or deep in the 
heart of the Adirondacks. 
With all the elements of good 
soil, sunshine, and plenty of 
water available, there is al- 
ways one factor essential in 
the making of a garden, and 
that factor is man. 

Buffalo, from the time it 
came into existence, has always 
had the natural advantages 
which it now possesses. From 
time to time these were devel- 
oped by man through the building of railroads, the 
construction of harbor and canal facilities, the es- 
tablishing of water transportation lines, and such other 




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One of the largest aud most attractive of aay in the United States 



Page Five 



PUBLIC BlILDIXr.S IX BIFFALO C0:MPLETKD WITH IX THE PAST TWO YEARS 



work as always goes witli llie growth and licvelop- 
iiient of a city. 

IIAKXESSIXG THE NIAGAUA 
The quickening came, however, with the Iiar- 
nessing of the mighty Xiagara and making it sub- 
nn'ssive to the needs of man. The appHcation of 
electrical power for the mo\'ing of machinery and 
the operation of factories and .street cars and the 
lighting of big cities created an industrial revolution 
along the Xiagara Frontier, and necessitated a re- 
adjustment which was made with the utmost 
dispatch, resulting in an impetus to commercial 
activities from which there has never been any re- 
action. It has been one continuous onward and 
upward trend, always optimistic and always meeting 
full expectations, however high they were aimed. 





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Home of the New York Telephone Company 



M.VRIXE NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 
Capital and Surplus, Ten Million Dollars 

Xo better evidence of the optimism and confidence of Buffalo 
business men in the progress antl futtire welfare of their city 
coukl be given than to recall the manner in which they launched 
and financed the Pan-American Exposition, which gained for 
Biiiralo an international fame and made the city's beauties and 
attractions, its resources and stability, known to the uttermost 
ends of the earth, the knowledge being gained in that most 
impressive and valuable manner, by personal investigation and 
study, incidental to the visit to the exposition. Although inter- 
national in character, and participated in by practically every 
power in the world and netirly every country of South .\nierica, 
the exposition was a Buffalo product, created by Buffalo busi- 
ness men and financed by Buffalo capital. 



Page Six 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN BT FFAT.O COMrLETED WITHIN THE PAST TWO YEARS 



rilK SIM KIT OF BUFFALO 

The spirit wliich liarnessed the Niagara and 
pointed the way lor other communities to benefit 
themselves by iitihziiii; the wasted water-powers of 
the nation, and wiiieh made the Pan-Amerieaii 
Exposition a reahty, still prevails here and mani- 
fests its energy in daily routine of life on ever\' 
hand. It is this spirit working in manifold wa^'s 
which is grinding away steadily and forcing Buffalo 
to the front to assume its rightful place as one of 
the largest municipalities of the New World, as well 
as one of the largest industrial centers on the globe. 

This being a commercial age, cities, like indi- 
viduals, are measured by the successes they have 
achieved; only, in the case of cities, one wishes to 
know about the progress it is making, such progress 
always being gauged according to purely material 

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then, has 
Buffalo 
done to 
command 
attention.'' 
IIow has it 
progressetl in pop- 
ulation, industrial 
life, and building 
acti\'ity, taking 
three questions 
more often asked in 
this country about 
a city than a n y 
others ? 

GAINS IN 
POrULATION 

From l.S!)0 to 
1900 Buffalo gained 
a total of 96,7'23 in 
population, accord- 
ing to the Federal 
Census figures. 

From 1900 to 
1910 it gained a 
total of 71,;K'8, ac- 
c o r d i n g to the 
same reliable 
authority. 




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PUBLIC BUILI)IN( ;S IN BIFFALO ( OMPLETKD WITHIN THE P.^ST TWO YEARS 



And in tlie three years since 1910, aceordini; to 
carefully compiled and conservative estimates, it has 
gained a total of 36,740 in population, with every 
indication that this nrowth will not only continue 
throuf,'hout the remainder of the decade, but that 
it will increase in like proportion from year to year. 
Takini; fiijures. however, as they arc, one need not 
be a mathematician to comprehend that i^n the |)ast 
three years the city has gained more than li:ilf as 
much in population as it gained throughout the 
entire preceding decade. 

'i'hat Buffalo will be a city of appro.ximately 
([.■JO, 000 population, when the census for li»-20 is 




ClRTIiBS BriLniNG 

taken, is both a foregone conclusion and a 
conservative statement. 

BUILDING IN BUFF.VLO 

E.xtent of building operations are always 
closely allied with increase in population, and 
here again Buffalo shines. 

In IIIO-.;. the total of building permits 



HOOT BUILDING 

issued in the city, expressed in dollars, was 
$5,433,078. 

In 191'2, ten years later, the total was 
$13,893, '206.94. 

For five years, beginning with 190() and 
ending with 1910, the total of building 
operations in Buffalo was approximately 
$43,000,000. For the three years begin- 
ning with 1910 and ending with 1913, the 
total of building operations in Buffalo was 
$36,465,000. In other words, for the five 

Page Eight 



ROOT-C.\Ll IIET Bl ILDLNG 



PUBLIC biildixgh; in buffalo completed within the past two years 




year period covered by the Federal Cen- 
sus, Buffalo spent in round numbers 
$'28,714 every working day for new 
buildings. In the past three years the 
city spent an average of $40,516 each 
working day for new buildings. The 
amounts spent each working day for 
the several years referred to are as 
follows: 1911, $34..546-. 1!)1'2, $1.3,366; 
1!)13, $43,696. 



lU Klil.LL BUILDING 

A table showing the number of permits issued 
annually in Buffalo and the amount of building- 
done each year from 19]'i to date is appended 
herewith : 



Year 


Number Permits 


Value of Buildings 


1902 


2,109 


$4,433,078 


1903 


2,011 


6,203,402 


1904 


2,077 


6,638,310 



DERRICK BUILDING 



Year 


Number Permits 


Value of Buildi 


1905 


2,880 


$7,401,006 


1006 


2,867 


8,686,000 


1907 


3,039 


8,411,000 


1908 


2,788 


6,847,000 


1909 


.3,361 


9,895,0(10 


1910 


3,494 


9,232,000 


1911 


3,402 


10,364,000 


1912 


4,090 


12,992,000 


1913 


3,977 


13.109,380 



SIDW.\Y BUILDING 



BUFPALO.S F.VCTORY PLANTS 

In the number of factory plants Buffalo's 
growth shows equally amazing results. The 
total number of factories in the city in 1900 

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was I.ITS: the close 
of l!)i;5 shows a 
total of i.S\~i fac- 
tory plants in Buf- 
falo, indicating a 
gain of ,■)!)() plants 
in the last thirteen 
jears. It should be 
noted, however, 
that for the five- 
year period fro ra 
I!)00 to 1905 Buf- 
falo gained only 
sixtv of these plants 



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NEW TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL 



and that from 190j to 1!)10 we 
gained '21.5 plants. In the three 
years subse<|uent to 1910 the 
gain was a\ plants, or forty-six 
plants more than were gained 
throughout the entire preceding 
ten years. In other words, in 
the last thirteen years Buffalo 
has made a gain of 40 per cent. 
in the number of factory plants 
in the city, and 5-1 per cent, of 
this gain was made in the last 
three 3'ears. 

Assuming that the increases 
in pay-roll, capital invested in 
plants, and animal value of 
products turned out by the 

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PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN BlIFFALO IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION 





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plants, are in the same proportion in 
the past three years that it was in the 
[treceding five years, the standing of 
Buffalo industries to-da}" would be 
as follows: Annual pay-roll, $54,- 
3()4,0()(); capital invested in plants, 
$'27(i,G77,000 ; annual value of prod- 
ucts, $325,445,000. This indicates a 
gain in three years in pay-rolls of 
$1G,'28!).000: in capital invested of 
$83,636,000; in value of products of 
$106,141,000. Comparing these gains 
with the gains made in the five-year 
period preceding, namely, 1905 to 
1910, we find that the increase dur- 
ing the preceding five years in pay- 
rolls was $10,910,000; in capital 
$56.01 S.OOO; and in value of prod- 








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Page Eleven 



CREATKR lUFFALO 





MAIN' I'LAXT AND HEADQUARTERS OF PRATT & LAMBERT, IXC. 
\'arni.^h Makers. The World's Largest Varnish JIakers 

nets, $71,-l'26,000. In other words, in the past three years the gain in 
pay-roll was appro.xiniately $6,000,000 greater than the pav-roli gain 
for the preceding five years, while the gain in capital was appro.xi- 
niately $'27,000,000 greater than the gain of the preceding five years, 
and the gain in value of products put out by Buffalo factories was 
approximately $3.3, 000.000 more in the last three years than the total 
increa.se for the preceding five years. 



lU'FFALO 
- WING.S 

HANK Of the element 



ESSENTIALS IN FACTORY LOCATING 

dwavs considered in locating a factory there are 




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Manufacturers of "Jsusquebanna " Tig Iron 



Page Twelve 



(iREATER BUFFALO 




Manufactuiers of Incubators, Brooders, and General Poultry AiJpliances and Supplies. Is the largest establishment of its kind in the 
Occupies eight and one-third acres of land near center of city. Operates branch hou.ses in New York. Boston, Chicago, 

Kansas City, Oakland, and London, England 

at least five that must come in for careful consideration. 
They are availablHty of raw material, transportation facil- 
ities, labor available, money outlay involved, and last, 
but not least, the market provided for the factory output. 
The superficial man, in considering Buffalo as a pos- 
sible location for his factory, undoubtedly would be satis- 
fied of his future by the pointing out to him how various 
Buffalo industries have grown. A case like that of the 
Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, which started here in 




PLANT OF THE HEWITT RUBBER COMPAXY 
Manufacturers of Mechanical Rubber Goods 



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I'LANT 01-- THi; URKWIKE STEKl^ COMl'AXY 
Manufacturers of Pig Iron 

a small way only a few years ago, would interest him very 
much, particularly if he were told that this company now pays 
out annually, in wages, some three million dollars. He would 
also be interested in the figures of other BufTalo industries, 
some of which have doubled their original capacity annually 
for at least a dozen years. The case of the I^arkin Company^ 
which began life in a tiny frame structure and which now does 
an annual business running high into the millions, would also 
be accepted by such a man as sufficient evidence of IIk- value 
of an industrial location in Buffalo. 

In these days of keen competition in the in<liistrial world. 



FEDERAL BIII.DIM. 
AND POST-OFFICl.; 

when any advantage 
in freight rates or 
shipping I'acililies 

often sjjells gain or 
loss of big contracts, 
and when ability to 
purchase raw materi- 
al to advantage often 
is the (inly I h i n g 
which puts Ihc big- 
figures on the right 
side of the ledger at 
the close of the year, 
it is necessary t o 
make a critical and 
minute study of a 

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PLANT or THE BUFFALO Pll-TS CCMPA.XY 

Road Cars, Clrain Threshers, 



Traction Farm .Steam EnKine=, fiasoline Tractors, Road Locomotive: 
Rice Thre.shers, aiul Bean Thresliers 



(i HEATER BUFFALO 



city's iiulustrial advantages be- 
fore one can be assured posi- 
tively as to such city's real 
merits in this respect. 

INDUSTRIAL GAINS IN 
THREE IlTARS 

As a further in<lication that 
the upward trend now being en 
joyed by Buffalo is a matter ol 
recent development, we h a v e 
only to compare the gains made 
in pay-roll, capital, and factory 
output in the last three years 
with the total gain made in 
these items in the past thirteen 
years. 

In doing this we find that 
in IIHIO the annual pay-roll of 
Buffalo amounted to $19,107,0011, 
the capital invested in plants 
was $9J,740,000, and the value 
of products, $105,6^27,000; and 
that the total gains made in the succeeding thirteen years were as follows: Pay-roll, $.'!.■), '257, 000; capital, $180,937,- 
000; value of products, $■■219,818,000. Analysis of these totals of gains for the past thirteen years shows that in pay- 
rolls the increase during the past three years was nearly one-half of the entire *i)tal for the past thirteen years, while the 
increase in capital during the past three years was also nearly one-half of the total gain for the entire thirteen years, and the 
gain in factory output for the three-year period, just closed, was nearly one-half of the total gain for the thirteen years. 




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PLANT OF THE .SNOW STEAM PUMP WORK.S 
M.inul"acturers of Pumping Machinery for all Services, and for Gas Engine.? from 100 H. P. to .5,000 H. P. each 



Page Fifteen 



GREATER BT'FFALO 




HIKFALO WORKS OF THE OTIS ELEVATOR COMPA.VY 



Host of the prominent buildings of Baffalo are equipped with Otis Elevators. 
Sales Office, Franklin and Huron streets 



Year 
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liHO 
1913 



Blfkalo's Industrial Growth 

Number of Plants Capital Pay-roll 

1,478 .$ 95,740.000 $19,107,000 

l,-538 l;{7,0'>3.000 '27.164.000 

1,7.>3 193.041.000 38.074.000 

^,074 27(i.077,OO0 54.3G4.O00 



In Number 
of Plants 
For the five vears from 1900 

to 190.J, .' GO 

For the five vears from 190j 

to 1910, .' -215 

For the three vears from 1910 
to 1913, ■ 321 



Gains Made for Years Indicated 

In Capital In Pay-roll 

S41, -283,000 $ 8.0.57,000 

.".0,018,000 10,910,000 

83.636,000 16,289,000 



Value of Products 

$105,627,000 

147,378.000 

218.804,000 

325,445,000 



In Value 
of Products 

$ 41,751,000 

71,426,000 

106,641,000 



Percentage of Total Gain in Number of Factory Pl.\nts, etc., in Buffalo in 
THE Past Three Years as .\gatnst Previous Ten Years 



From 1900 to 1910, 
From 1910 to 1913, 



Plants 

.461 

.539 





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BUFFALO WORKS OF THE PRATT & LETCHWORTH CO.MPAXT 
Producers of .Malleable Iron and Steel Castings 



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Home of the Common- 
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REASONS FOR 
INDUSTRIAL 
GROWTH 

A study of the 
tables shown prompts 
the very natural in- 
ijuiry as to the cause 
tor Buffalo's growth 
in general and the 
remarkable progress 
made within the past 
three years as indi- 
cated. Stated briefly, 
the general growth 
made by the city is 
attributable in large 




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MirTUAL LIFE 
BUILDING 

measure to Buffalo's 
natural location plus 
certain artificial facil- 
ities which are in- 
evitably provided in- 
cidental to the build- 
ing up of a large 
center of population. 
With particular refer- 
ence to the record of 
the past three years 
as emphasized in 
(lie tables on page 
sixteen, more will be 
set forth in discuss- 
ing the pregnant 
work of the Buffalo 
Chamber of Com- 
merce. 




PLANT OF TUB BUFFALO SMELTIXO COMPANV 
Manufacturers of Ojpijer Insots. Wire Bars, and Kollinj; Mill Cake 



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GREATER HTEEAEO 





TECIMSEH STREET PLANT 
THE REPl'BLIC METALWARE COMPANY'S FACTORIES 

Manufacturers of Sheet Metal Goods and Enameled Ware. Branch 
Houses in New York and Chicago 

To go back, therefore, to wliat nii£;ht be termed 
llie general or natural growth of the city, it is well to 
consider the various elements best conducive to attain- 
ing such growth, and there is no better way to bring 
out such facilities than in studying what might be 
termed the logic or philosophy of factory location, for 
after all. in the great majority of cases, the importance 
and size of cities are coniniensuratc with their indus- 
trial development. 

A citv which can best meet the requirements of the 



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The Largest Manufacturers of Heavy Castings in the United States 



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GREATER BUFFALO 




BUFFALO PLANT, WASIIBURX-CKOSISV (OMr'AXY 
Manufacturers Gold Medal Flour 




manufacturer is bound to grow industrially, whereas, 
one which lacks, even though it be in only one or two 
essentials, can never become great industrially. The 
fundamental principles of successful factory location are 
just as basic as the determining of the course of a stream 
l)v the topography of the country through which it flows. 



DELAWARE PARK 
BRIDGE 



VARIATION IN 
INDUSTRIES 

BuflFalo has been 
put to the acid test 
in ever}' requirement 
entering into success- 
ful factory location 
and has never been 
found wanting. That 
this test has been 
more far-reaching 
than that undergone 
by most cities of its 
size is indicated by 



PLANT OF THE NORTHLAND RTHHKR CUMI'ANV 
Manufacturers of Automobile Tires and Tultes 



Page Xineteen 



riRKATER HTFFAr.O 




Furniture Warehouse, Terrace 



Main Warehouse, also pon- 
net-ted by tunnels with Mar- 
ket Buililing and Main 
Street Store 



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the fact that of 
all lines of indus- 
try recognized bv 
the Federal Cen- 
.siis Bureau, Buf- 
falo has 60 per 
cent. In other 
words, this city's 
facihties are such 
as to make it the 
logical home for a 
great hulk of the 
industries repre- 
sented in the 
United States. 

In reference to 
the five fundamen- 
tal principles en- 
tering into proper 
factory location, 
referred to pre- 
\iousIy, it may not 
be amiss to go 
into a few details. 
All raw mate- 
rials found in the 
Great Lakes re- 
gion and contigu- 
ous territory are 
easily available for 
at their floors with little trouble and at the 



Garage an<l Stables, Terrace 



BuflFali) manufacturers generally, and therefore c.-in be lai( 
lowest possible cost, 

ONE THOUSAND MILES OF TRACKS 
.Seven hundred miles of steam railroad tracks and 3~j miles of street railway tnicks within the city 
give Buffalo exceptional facilities to meet 
internal traffic needs .as well as incoming 
and outgoing traffic rc(|uirenients. The 
seventeen railroads and ten steamship 
lines which have terminal facilities here 
give Buffalo water and rail traffic facilities 
such as are possessed b\' but very few cities. 
Internally, its street-car system is regarded 
as one of the best in the country, with the 
routes so laid out that labor can get from 
home to factory or vice versa without un- 
due loss of time, Buffalo has the universal 
transfer .system and a single car fare will 
take one from any part of the city to any 
other place he wishes to go. 

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(;R EATER BUFFALO 



FIXE LABOR MARKET 
Numerous freight depots are scattered through- 
out the city, and the best of pavement (Buffalo 
leading the world in extent of asphalt-paved streets). 





IN THE HORTICTLTURAL-GARDEX 
CONSERVATORY 



CITY HALL 

making traffic easy, and thus helping to keep down overhead 
charges for industries that do not necessarily require railroad 
facilities. 

The labor market, both in regard to skilled and unskilled 
labor, has always been ample to meet the requirements of 
Buffalo, and as the city has grown industrially its increased 
demands have always been met readily, probably because of 
the fact that Buffalo is so located that it not only has fine labor 
markets in close proximity but also because it is on the great 
hiifhways of tra\'el followed by labor in moving from place 
to place. 

The fact that the city has a large foreign population, con- 
sisting principallv of Germans, Poles, and Italians, affords 




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(iRKATKR BTFFAI,0 




miLUIXUIS OF THK « ll.l.IAM HK.\GKRb;K COMPANY — DEPARTMENT STORE 

an imniedinte soiirte of siip[)ly for skilled ;ui(l yinskilled lahor that has been condncive to the rapid growth and progress 
of Buffalo's industries. 

LAND VALUES REASONABLE 
In regard to money outlay with reference to factory location, it will be found, on the point of fixed charges, such 
as taxes, insurance, and interest, that contlitions here, as compared to other large cities, are very satisfactory. In refer- 
ence to initial cost of land, it can be stated that Buffalo, as yet, has to experience conditions prevailing in other cities 
where factory sites are sold on a square-foot basis. Ideal locations are available here at acreage prices, which are gen- 
erally fair and reasonable, and in many 
instances surprisingly low. 

CHEAP POWER IN BUFFALO 

In rcganl to factory ni.iintenance, it is 
perhaps superfluous to refer to Buffalos 
cheap and unlimited electric power, which 
is also available for lighting; or to the fact 
that coal, owing to the city's closeness to 
the Pennsylvania mines, is cheap here. 
As regards water, Buffalo's supply is lim- 
ited only by the quantity available in the 
entire chain of Great Lakes. For maim- 
facturing purposes, tliis water is supplied 
at meter rates by the month at six cents 
per 1,000 gallons up to '.J'^.jOO gallons and 
above that at two cents per 1,000 gallons, 
which is about what it would cost for an buffalo harbor view 




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GREATER BTTFFALO 




individual inaimfitcdiier to pump it. The city's proxiniity to 
building materials is indicated best by calling to mind that 
the Buffalo district includes the largest lumber market in the 
world, while in the city itself are mills and factories capable 
of meeting all iron and steel structural requirements, the prices 
of these latter materials being such as to enable these IJulfalo 
manufacturers " 



POKTIOX OF BUFFALO HERD, PARK ZOO 



10 compete 
\vith similar 
1 n d u s t r i e s 

1 1 ly where i n 
I lie country. 

sffi The sew- 

age system is 

of the best and to-day totals 5'2j miles, and the city is liberal in extend- 
ing sewage facilities to manufacturing plants. 

CENTER OF 50,000,000 POPULATION 

It is no flight of fancy to state that the markets of the world are 

Buffalo's. With reference to the United States itself, the proximity of 

markets may be inferred from the fact that .50,000,000 residents of 

this country live within one night's ride of Buffalo. Two-thirds of the 





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The Most Moflern and Well-equipped Telephone Exchange in We.stern New York 



iil ILUl.NG OF THE BUFFALO AEW.S 

Devoted Exclusively to Publishing the Buffalo Evening 
and Sunday News 

popidalion of Canada live within the same dis- 
tance. When the barge canal is completed in 
1915, Buffalo will be in closer proximity to the 
Atlantic seaboard for foreign shipments than ever 
before, and this city will derive all possible bene- 
fits from such proximity to it by reason of the 
fact that New York is closer to what will be 
the ocean lane of travel from northern European 
ports, via the Panama Canal, to Japan and 

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GREATER BUFFALO 



the lands to the west, tluin any olher Allaiilic Coast 

port. 

ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST PORTS 
Although regarileil bv many persons as an inland 

city, Bufl'alo is really one of tiie world's largest ports. 

.\ppro.\iniately 10.001) vessels arrive at and depart from 

Buffalo annually, and the total tonnage carried by these 

boats aggregate ap|)ro\imately 1!).000.000 tons each year. 
The receipts by lake and rail include the various kind.s 

of grain, copper, cotton, coal, iron ore. pig iron, wool, zinc. 






G.^TES CIRCLE 




Year 


Number of Boats 


Tonnage 


1908 


0,278 


12,052,481 


1909 


6,659 


14,062,339 


1910 


7,468 


14,576,501 


1911 


6,700 


13,087.757 


1912 


7,625 


16,976.205 


1913 


10.385 


19,.3:i0.449 




s(jrAi!i; 

lumber, cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, fish, poidtrv, sugar, 
(oal. salt, cemcnl, flour, and iron. 

The tonnage of the port as indicated by the number of 
vessels clearing here and the tonnage of the cargoes car- 
ried bv such vessels is best known in the followini; table: 






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V. M. C A. BUILDING 

GREAT GRALX CENTER 

One of the important industries which has aided 
in building u]) IJufl'alo's lake tonnage is the grain 
elevating business, which has been showing a steady 
increase for some years past. The total lake grain 
receipts of Buffalo in 1912, expresseii in busliels, 
vv.is 197,717, 1. '54, while in the year just closing, 
\'.H3, the total of such receipts at Buffalo was 
239,8.5 l.OO.J bushels. The steady increase in the 
past few years is due entirely to the increased 



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GREATER BUFFALO 



a^fc!, 



'^~H 







-DEP.VHTllEXT STOHE 




volume of business being shipped 
througli Buffalo for export from 
the Canadian head of the lakes, 
and it is expected by those best 
advised that the business from 
this Icrritorv will steadily increase. 
A gratifying feature of the 
grain industry of Buffalo is the 
facility with which the present 
elevating apparatus meets the de- 
mand made upon it. In the lull 
which came over the grain busi- 
ness at Buffalo in 1898, and for 
twelve years thereafter, Buffalo's 
elevator capacity was reduced by 
about 5,000,000 bushels, yet, in 
response to the increased demands 
made upon the present elevators 
in the past three years, the exist- 
ing elevators have handled the 
rapidly increasing business expe- 
The explanation for this is that 



MAIN BlILDIXG OF .\D.\XI, MELDRTM & .VXDEKSOX CO.MP.^AY 

ditiously and without any serious delays 

more modern equipment in the newer elevators that have replaced old 
structures has increased the capacity for handling, while the better facil- 
ities in the shape of railroad equipment has resulted in increased carrying 
capacity to such an extent as to offset any loss in transfer e(iuipment 
from boat to cars. 

LEADS L\ GRAIN-HANDLING ABILITY 

To-day Buffalo is better equipped to handle grain business than any 
other port on the Great Lakes and is able to accommodate and handle 
vessels of the largest class. A vessel carrying 350,000 bushels of wheat 
causes no comment in Buffalo, in view of the fact tliat the record carry 
of 1913 was made by a boat which unloaded O'iCOOO bushels of Canadian 
oats at this 
port. In 1898 
grain w a s 
still being 
received in 
.sailing boats 
which car- 
ried f r o m 
eighteen to 
twenty thou- 
sand bushels 



FURXITrRE STOEE OF .\D.V1I, llELDUni ,V 

AXDEE.SOX' COMP.\XY DEP.VRT- 

MEXT STORE 



at a load. An idea of the dispatch with which grain is 
handled at this port may be gained from the statement 
that from September 15, 1913, until the close of naviga- 
tion, the average number of bushels elevated and loaded 




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P^9 



THE BUFFALO UNION FUUNACE COMPANY 
Manufacturers of Coke Pig Iron 



jjer (l.iv was 1,000.000 bushels. On niiiriy of these days the 
Biiti'alo Creek Kailroad, whieh is serxirii;- the territory in 
which most of the elevators are located, handled '2,000 cars 
per day in and out. ■ 

It can be seen readily from a comparison of the above 
fijrures what tremendous strides have been made in the 





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GROUP OF CANAL BOAT.S, BUFFALO H.\RUl>K 



ririr \ 

lluil.ling 

carrying capacity of lake boats, many of which are now 
more than 600 feet long and from fifty-six to sixty feet 
wide, with a carrying capacity of approximately I'.'.OOO 
tons. 

CITY'S HARBOR FACILITIES 
Buffalo is certainly awake to the need of providing 
ade(|uate harbor facilities, and within the past two 
years ten additional miles of water frontage have been 
made available for immediate development through the 
construction of piers, slips, docks, etc., to take care in 




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au ailt'<|iuile iiiaimer of the greatly iiierea.siiig' tonnage of the port, \\hcii 
it is considered that twenty-four years ago the city of Buffalo did not own 
sufficient water frontage at which to dock the first fire tug purchased by it, 
and that it now possesses a frontage of 2.1.5 miles, it becomes apparent 
that Bufi'alonians appreciate the value of water transportation facilities. 
Of the ten miles of addilional frontage now available for develoij- 





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Administratioa Building 

meat, there are between three 
and four miles extending along 
the city's inner harbor, where 
it will be possible to construct 
piers and slips varying in length 
from 700 to 1,200 feet, with 
an average width for pier and 
slip of 200 feet each. In other 
words, it will be po.ssible to con- 
struct in this territory alone be- 
tween thirty and forty of such 
piers. The bulk of this water 
frontage was tied up in litiga- 
tion that had been carried on 
for upwards of one-quarter of 
a century, and, consequently, 
could not be improved or devel- 
oped in any way until an adjustment of the legal difficulties and complications had been made. This having been wiped 
out, it is possible for Buffalo to obtain for itself the full measure of water development to which it is entitled, and, in 



SPENCER KELLOGG & .SONS, INC. 

Concrete Elevator ami Buffalo Mill. Manufarturers and Kefiners of Linseed. Ca.stor, and Edible Oih 
Other mills at Minneapolis and New York 





Main Building I'earl Street Entrance 

BUILDINGS OF FLINT & KENT DEP.\RTMENT STORE 

PrKjc Tvenli/scren 



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£££££££ El i 

f FEEEE! £E £ 

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Manufacturers of tlie Famous Cutler Desks and Office Furniture 



this connection, it is of 
interest to note that the 
bulk of the ten miles 
of additional frontage 
now available is lo- 
cated along outer coast 
lines and not upon in- 
land streams. In other 
words, the construction 
and dredging work re- 
quired can be carried 
on without impeding 
the navigation of the 
port in the slightest 
degree, and when fin- 
ished it will enable the 
lake boats to discharge 
and take on cargoes at 
Huffalo's extreme outer 
edge without the need 
of following inland 
stream routes anil be- 



ing subjected to the inevitable delays occasioned by swing- 
bridges and other obstructions of such routes. 

Plans for the dredging of this enormous amount of water 
frontage are well in hand and their execution wil 
outlay of many millions of dollars on construction work alone 
within tlie next few years. 

$130,000,000 BARGE CANAL 
The expenditure by New York State of $130,000,000 for 
the construction of the new barge 
canal is an outlav having a direct 




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Manufacturers of the Famous Amherst Stoves, Ranges, and Furnaces. .-VLso Fine Jobbing Castings 



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GREATER BUFFALO 



bearing upon Biifi'alo 
Tliat tlie success of 
this enormous under- 
taking is dependent 
in large degree upon 
proper terminal facil- 
ities at Buffalo, and 
that the State is con- 
vinced of this, is evi- 
denced by the fact 
that, through its Canal 
Board, the State has 
just awarded con- 
tracts for the con- 





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PLANT OF THK J. I'. DE\ INE COMPANY 

Manufacturers of Vacuum Pumps, Vacuum Drying, Impregnating, and Evaporating Pvuups 

siruction of Barge Canal Terminals in this city to cost upwards of $'2,500,- 
000. One of these terminals, the smaller of the two, will be located in the 
Ohio Basin and the other will be in the Erie Basin. The latter terminal 
will undoubtedly be the most important in the State outside of Xew York 
( 'ity. and its construction will be such as to permit of the most rapid transfer 
possible of cargoes from big lake boats to canal boats, or vice versa. 

BARGE AND PANAMA CANALS COMPARED 

In N-iew of the fact that Chicago, Cleveland, and other big lake ports, 
not, of course, excepting Buft'alo, consider that this canal gives them actual 
seaport facilities, ennbiing them to lay their products down in the ports of 
New York and Boston without the necessity of breaking bulk, it may be 
worth while considering some of the big featiu'es of this $130,000,000 




JACOB DOLD PACKING COMPANY (BUFFALO PLANT) 
Home of the Dold-Quality Meat Products 



Page Tm-nttj-nhu 



(;R EATER lUEFAI.O 




IROCJl'DI- Mill I I, 

undertaking of the State. The comparative figures set forth 
below show some of the most striking facts with reference 
to tiie Barge and Panama canals: 

Barge Canal — Fivch\mcin-d,iiMl fortymiles long: total 
lockage lift, 1,0,50 feet: dams, Ihirty-nine; locks, fifty-seven 
lift, two guard. and m'ne smaller locks : mmdier of structures. 




between 3M) and 400; cost, $1'27,800,00(); built by State 
with a population of 9,000.000; excavation, estimated 
total. 1 1 t.OOO, 100 cubic yards; concrete, estimated total, 
'2,7.50,000 cubic yards: excavation to January 1. l!)l:i. 
78,4-.'8,'.!8C cubic yards; work begun, April ','4, 1!)0.5. 

Paxa.ma C.\xal — Fifty miles long: total lockage lift, 
170 feet; dams, four: locks, six pairs: mimber of struc- 
tures, twelve locks, one spillway, and four dams; cost, 
$37.5,000.000: built by United .States with a j)opulation 
of OO.OOO.OOO; excavation, estimated total. -.'O:!.' 10.000 




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HOTEL LENOX 



III M I.I. ST\TI.i:H 

cubic yards: concrete, estimated total. .5,1 1(10.0(1(1 cubic 
yards; excavation to January 1, U>13, 188,'280,31'2 
cubic yards; work begun by Americans, May 4, 1!)01. 

CANALS CARRYING CAPACITY 

Although commonly referred to as the l.OOO-lon 
Barge Canal, the new water-way will really 
accommodate boats of l.oOO gross tons capacity, 
and the locks have been built with a view to future 
development, so that thev are capable of accoimno- 
daling two canal boats, each having a capacity of 



r; n v. \ t e r b t; f f a l o 



3,000 tons. The capacity of the new canal will 
be twenty-five times that of the old canal. A 
single boat of the smallest type to be used on 
the new canal will carry a cargo sufficient to fill 
thirty-seven and one-half freight cars, having a 
capacity of approximately forty tons, or 80,000 
pounds each. When it is considered that the 
cargoes of the canal boats which plied the origi- 
nal canal, built in 18'2o, was scarcely sufficient 
to fill two modern freight cars, one gets an idea 
of the bigness of the new waterway. The pres- 
ent canal boats have a capacity of '2-l'0 tons as 
compared to 1,500 tons, which will be the 
capacity of the new boats on the Barge Canal. / 

In view of what has been shown regarding 
the growth and acti\ities of Bufl^alo, it is obvious 
that to carrv on work of this kind, facilities for 



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Public Library 



Lafayette Hotel Brisbane Buildi 

lafayf;ttk sijr.vRE 



LAIAYHTTE HOTEL 

financing such projects must be 
available and that the financial 
institutions of the city must be 
ready to respond to the constant 
demands made upon them. The 
(|iiestion is often bluntly asked as 
to the attitude of the Buffalo 
banks in this respect. In the 
same blunt manner the best an- 
swer which can be given is that 
the banking institutions of the 
city must have met the demands 
made upon them in a satisfactory 
manner or else the fine showing 
made bv Buffalo could not have 




XORTH .STREET AT DELAWARE AVENTE 
Showing Hotel Lenox 



MAIN STREET AND SHELTON SQUARE 

Page Thirly-one 



CHEATER IH'FFALO 




Eliiiwuocl Plant 

been achieved. As with everything else, the growth 
of the banking interests is dependent upon the growth 
of tlie city itself, and the one invariably reflects the 
oilier. Eight year-; ago the total cajjital of all Bufi'alo 

banks w a s 
$4,680.()()ll. the 
surplus in such 
hanks was $11!,- 
()4:i,'21'-2, a 11 d 
the total of dc- 
posits w a s 
!tiU.'!,l.'!(i,'271. 





HIFFALO PL.\XTS OF THE .\LL .\II.\L M CASTING.S COMPANY 

Manvifactiirers of Aluminum Castings, in Sand ami 
Permanent Metal Molds 



FRO.VT VIKW, IIISTOKICAL lit ILDIMi 



On January 1, 19U, the total capital of all banks in Buft'alo was $in,.5.3n,000, 
an increa.se in eight years of $.5,870,((()0, or .$1,000. 000 more than double what 
it was eight years ago. On the same (fay the surplus in the Buffalo banks was 
nearly $8,000,000 more than it was eight years ago, while the deposits totaled 
$'2.'U,8'2'-M 10, an increase of more than $!)1,000,000 in eight years, or an average 

increase of nearly 
$1^3,000,000 per year 
during the past eight 
years. 

BUFFALO'S 
BANKING 
GROWTH 

The total figures 
for the several years 
referred to are as 
follows : 

Total capital, sur- 
plus, and deposits of 
all Buffalo banks, 
trust coinptinies. and 
savings banks on the 
first day of Jantiary 
of each year is shown 
in table on next 

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The Largest and Most Sanitary Ice Cream Plant in the World P^^^^' 




I'mif Thirli/-fii'n 



G R E A T E R BUFFALO 



These figures 
present a gratify- 
ing general ad- 
vance in the 
prosperity of the 
city and increase 
of business, which 
s h ou 1 d, a n d 
doubtless will, in- 
duce nia ny nia nu- 
facturing c o n - 
cerns to locate in 
a city of such 
importance. 




IKW AT DtLAWAKE PARK 



Year 


Capital 


Surplus 


Deposits 


1906 


$ 4,(;8o,noo 


$13,043,'-il2 


$143,136,271 


1907 


(>,-i.)(l,l)OU 


1-2,328,590 


155,739,184 


1908 


6,4.'«(l,000 


1(1,099,849 


146,740,725 


1909 


G,4,)(),000 


13,720,728 


160,076,931 


1910 


7,8.50,000 


14,742,407 


175,953,189 


1911 


8,400,000 


14,441,003 


186,159,279 


1912 


8,.30O,O00 


1.5,287,731 


205,849,209 


1913 


9,i;.-.o,ooo 


1 7,07.-.,(i38 


226,167,784 


1914 


10,.j.')0,000 


21,013,04(1 


234,822,110 



The total of the deposits in the four savings banks of the 
city on January 1, 1914, was $103,454,672.27. This total is 
included in the total of deposits of all banks in Buffalo as 
given in the above table, and is available for home-building 
for workers in Buffalo factories. 

The total amount of sa\'ings in Buffalo banks, as already 
set forth, gives an idea of the amount of capital available in 
this city for enterprises of all kinds. In this connection men- 
tion should be made that there are twenty-six savings and 





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Hnine oi the People's liank 



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PLANT OF THE BUFFALO COATED PAPER COMPANY 

Manufacturers of White Litho. and Enameled Book Papers 
-The paper used in this publication was furnished by the Buffalo Coated Paper Company. 



Page Thirty-three 



(IRKATKH in FFAI.O 



loan associations 
operating in Buf- 
falo, the capital 
and loans of 
which are avail- 
able principally 
for building pur- 
poses, and ex- 
plains in large 
measure \v li y 
Buffalo is noted 
asacitvof homes. 



BUFFALO'S 

BANK 
CLEARINGS 

Buffalo's 
proximity to New 

York and the system of bank clearances in vogue here, which does not set forth all the transactions of Buffalo 
banks, tends to keep the total of bank clearances comparatively low. The soundness of Buffalo's banking insti- 
tutions is indicated by the fact that in the panic of 1907 not a bank in Buffalo failed, nor was it even necessary to issue 
clearing-house certificates. The following table, however, sets forth clearly the growth of the banking business in this 
city as represented by bank clearances during the past ten years: 




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Mauufacturer.s of Motor Delivery Cars and Trucks 



Year 
190.3, 
1904. 
190 J, 
190G, 
1907. 
1908, 
1909. 
1910, 
1911, 
1912, 
1913, 



Clearings 
ii!:K>7.'2:il.l.")3.8'>, 
3-27.4.51.4-10 .'!9. 
3."i()..")(i7. .)()."> .'5S. 
3nii.'2(!H.lSl 91. 
43t,(iS9.97,V34. 
4ll9,(IS(i.489.'>3, 
4li7,S7(i.993.J3. 
.50'2.8'>{).G97..54, 
ol(!.870.770.78. 
.■i79.088..538 . '>.). 
(i3.).3OS.09.5.5O. 



Gain 

$-2.5.340.029.58. 

220.2S()..57, 

2:'..11(!.0(>4 99, 

4.).7(lll.(:7(i,.53, 

38.421,793.43. 



.58.790,504.00, 
34.949,704.31, 
14,050.073. '24, 
(i2,2 11,767.47, 
.5(1.219.557. '2.5, 



$25,603,486.1 



Balances 
$41,482,090 04 
41.82(1.2111.35 
42.4.59.240.63 
4.5..531.146.31 
.51.(178,031.12 
41).94(1,012.43 
(1(1.(19(1.280. 39 
02.404.407.27 
03.392.215.92 
09,227.358 38 
78.578.243.58 




Note. 



I'l.ANl OF THK DINN 



•Manufacturers of Fine PrintinE^ and Littiosrapliic Inks 
-The ink used in printing tliis publication was furnished by the Duiwi Ink Works. 



OTHER ASPECTS 
OF BUFFALO 

While this book, as 
pieviously indicated, is 
issued primarily to indi- 
cate the recent growth 
of Buffalo commercially 
and industrially, and sta- 
tistical information has 
been given to emphasize 
these features of Buf- 
falo's progress and de- 
velopment, there are 
other aspects inevitably 
iutemoven in the growth 
of a municipality which, 
bv reason of their dove- 



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tailing with industry and 
commerce, sliould re- 
ceive the attention of 
persons interested i n 
studying any particular 
city. Sonic of liicsc 
other aspects of hfe in 
Buffalo will be referred 
to here. 

It .should always be 
borne in mind, first of 
all, that Buffalo is still 
a young city. It is still 
within the recollection of 

men who have not y^t rounded out their three 
and uninviting frontier town, just the kinfl of 





UUFFALO HARBOR 
Lalie Steamer t'nloading by Ore-haTiiIlitii; Machinery 



HORTICULTURAL BUILDIXG .\T SOUTH PARK 

score years and ten, when, what is now Buffalo was a raw, unsightly, 
I ])lace one would expect to be erected on a great waterway, only lately 
, forsaken, as history reckons time, by its 
aboriginal occupants. Historical and ro- 
mantic associations, which constitute so 
largely the charm of old-world cities, 
received little attention from the dwellers 
in the voung land still devoid of virility. 
Although still young, Buffalo has de- 
veloped confidence and does not hesitate 
to take the initiative. If large centers of 
population may be regarded personally, 
then Buffalo is a commander with author- 
ity in the great army which is building 
what already is the greatest nation of all 
times. On the dividing line between the 



teeming central 
region and the 
strong eastern 
financial sec- 
tion, Buffalo 
takes from each 
and is the melt- 
ing pot into 
which is thrown 
the Western 
daring and the 
Eastern con- 
servatism, the 
resultant being 
a new element 
that produces 
the highest 
success in all 




PLANT OF THE ATLAS .STEEL I'ASTINCiS CO.MPAXY 
Manufacvurers of Open-Heartll Castings for all purposes 



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ta;o. .1. .MEVKR MALTING COMPANY 

iturers nf Superior Qualities of Malt. Annual Capacity. 2,500,000 Bushels 

l!i:il makes for the welfare of niankiiul. Buffalo is a bii; 
city, bij; in the sense that its j)eople are broad in their 
views, deep in their comprehension, facile in adaptati<in, 
an<l (|nick to apply that which makes for the ijeneral 
welfare in all directions. M.-iterial well-being is not the 
sole aim and end of a Btitfa Ionian's existence. The 
intellectual is not ignored, anil there is an esthetic 
Buffalo, whose influence is so broad and far-reaching 
that its devotees include rejiresentatives from all ranks 
of life. Iliose measured liy mat<'rial possessions, as well 



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as all classes of the many nation- 
alitie.s included in the city's popu- 
lation. 

SOf'I.Vr. WORK IN 
BUFFALO 

As early as 18()'-2, Buffalo took 
the initiative in what has come lo 
be the model method of judicial 
procedure with regard to juvenile 
delinquents. Up to that time the 
cases of children arrested for any 
cause were handled the same as 
were those of adidt defendants. 
The practice was not a good one 

Pai/e Thirty-six 




BIFFALO I'LANT OF THK MON.VKCH K.MTTI.NC. CO.Ml'A-W 

Manufacturers of Sweaters and Fancy Knit Goods. Other Plants at St. Thomas, Dunnville. and 

St. Catharine-s, Ontario 



r. R E A T E R BUFF A L O 



and the first sk'|) in the 
rig'lit direction was tai^en 
when tlie cases of chil- 
dren and adnlts were 
separated and separate 
trials were accorded in, 
what was then, the morn- 
ing court of the city. 
This court was con- 
ducted in the various 
poHce stations by t h c 
morning justice. 

On January 1, 1900. 
a further important step 
was taken in this im- 
portant branch of the 
judicial administration 





PLANT OF THE FEDDKKS .M.^NUF.\CTl'RIN'G COMP.\MY 

Manufacturers of High-Grade Automobile Uadiators 

of a big city, when separate courts were conducted at differ- 
ent hours for adults and children, the children being tried 
in the afternoon and the adults in the morning. Chicago 
was a Httle ahead 
of Buffalo in this 
respect, having 
adopted this prac- 
tice in the fall of 



.\H( »ED UKIDtiK, DEL.\\V.\RE 
P.\KK 

18!)!), but Buffalo was the 
first city in the country 
which established a children's 
court in a separate building 
and having no physical con- 
nection with any other courts. 
Pending their trials, the 
children are never confined in 
prisons but are sent to a 
detention home, where they 
receive such care and atten- 
tion as are accorded in any 
children's institution and 
where they are free from 
any possible debasing prison 
influence. 

Buffalo was the first city 
in the world to establish a 




lin'erside Branch 



THE FLEISCHM.WX JIALTIN'G COMP.\>JY, CINCINN.\TI, OHIO. (BUFFALO BRANCHES) 

Page Thirty-seven 



GREATER BUFFALO 




Lake Onlarin 



Xiai.':,ra Kails 



The Tonawandas 



BIKD S-EYE VIEW 



The above pieture |]resent.s in ffi'aphic form and In a strictly origi- 
nal manner what is, umUmbtedly, one of the richest and most promis- 
inj; industrial sections to be fonnd in the United Stiites. 

From the sonlhern city limits of Bnffalo on Lake Erie to Lake 
Ontario, the extent of territory, as the crow flies, and as portrayed 
above, is some 'ili miles. The original painting from which the pic- 
tnre published herewith was reproiluced is lOJ by -1 feet in dimensions. 



E VIEW Oi' l.UK.VrS 
y point in Canada opj 



It is painted in perspective from an imaginary 
site Bntfalo, with the river, lake, and harbor Iti the foreground a 
the surrounding cities and villages indicated merely by name in I 
background. In other words, the picture is practically a photograpl 
rc|)roduction of Buffalo, the Tonawandas, and Niagara Falls. In ti 
form the picture tloes not show the scores of thriving \illages a 
smaller cities either contiguous to Buffalo or within a verv few mi 



domestic relations court, and tliis court has become the model from which other cities, notably Chicago and New York, 
have copied and in accordance with which they are now carr3ing on similar work. This court was estabhshed about 
1908 and was the idea of Simon Nash, the police justice of the city. It is now a branch of the regular city court, and 
in it cases involving relations between husband and wife are passed upon with excellent results. The method of opera- 
tion is such that domestic difficulties 
coming before the court are handled 



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Pdf/r Thiriij-riifht 



PLANT OF THE DWELLE-KAISER COMPANY 

^\■holesale (Ilass, Paints. Oils, Etc. 




Manufacturers of Stee! Products. This is 



GREATER BUFFALO 




Buffalo 1 



LO ANU MAGAKA 1 KU.M'Il:U 

the city and connected with it \>\ trolley lines and railroads, so 
it, for all practical purposes, they really constitute part of Buffalo. 
The picture, for example, does not set forth in detail the city of 
ckport, which has some 18,000 population, nor the villages of 
pew and Lancaster, which practically border on Buffalo anfl have 
lie 4.000 inhabitants each; nor yet does it show the steel center, 
c'kawanua, with 16.000 inhabitants. .\s a matter of fact, the pic- 



'ith reference to the Great Lakes, the Barge Canal, 
and Atlantic Seaboard 



ture gives a very fair idea of what might be termed the metropolitan 
district of Buffalo, which district includes upwards of 600,000 inhabit- 
ants. The water and rail transportation facilities and the situation 
on the Niagara Frontier, with reference to the country as a whole, is 
such as to insure the industrial development of this section with greater 
rapidity than undoubtedly will be the case with reference to any other 
large citv in the Uuitefl States. 



privately, receiving no publicity, and are disposed of in a manner which saves the pride of all concerned. There is no 
need, in fact, no opportunity, for complainants to come in contact with the ordinary run of criminals and law breakers, 
and the record of the court is that adjustments made by it between husbands and wives usually continue indefinitely. 
Long before New York State established its probation system, Buffalo had taken the initiative in placing men and 
women on probation for their own welfare. This was in 1901, and to-day this city's probation system is admitted to 
be one of the best, if not the best, in the entire .State. 




PLAXT OF TUB LACKAWAN.\.\ .STEEL COMPANY 
Largest Steel Plants in the Worltl. Covering an Area of 1.025 Acres, and Capable of Producing 1.250,000 Tons of Finished Steel a Year 



Pac/f Thirfy-nine 



GREATER BI'FFAT>0 



BUFFALO A 
LIBERAL CITY 
That Buffaloni- 
ans are liberal in 
even- sense of the 
term is shown by 
the success of all 
endeavors under- 
taken for the wel- 
fare of all its citizens 
irrespective of their 
stations in life. 
Through well-organ- 
ized institutions, 
supported niaiidy bv 
public contributions, 
not merely the boys 
anil "'iris but the men 




PL.\NT OF THE SOWERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY 

Engineers and Fcmmlers. Manufacturers of Seamless Steam Jacketed Apparatus and Jacketed Engine Castings 




UKAK VIKW, ALHKICllT AHT GALLERY 



and women come in for attention and are afforded 
opportunities to better themselves. 

The city's playground system is coming to be recog- 
nized as one of the best in the country. Free public 
bath-houses have been maintained in Buffalo for many 
years. The city is now engaged in carrying out plans 
for the establishing of small parks in the congested 
sections of the city for the benefit of the dwellers in 
such places. Band concerts, at public expense, are given 
regularly throughout the summer months in the parks 
and other public places and are always attended by 
thousands who gather in the open air to enjoy the music. 



In winter, public con- 
certs are given in the 
city's convention halls. 
The man without a 
home and without a job 
is not forgotten or over- 
looked, or the woman 
either for that matter. 
With special reference 
to the men, the county 
maintains a lodging 
house where men out of 
work, whose sole relief 
would be a police station 
or the penitentiary were 
it not for this institution, 
are cared for temporarily 

I'ai/c Forty 




PLANT OF THE L. & I. .1. WHITE COMP.\NY. (ESTABLISH EIJ 18;i7) 
Manufacturers of Edge Tools, Machine Knives, and Dies. Branch Offices, New York and Chicago 



CHKATER BUFFALO 



sheltered, boarded at public expense, and sujjporled 
until they have had reasonable time in which to 
find work. All this is absolutely free, and the work 
is carried on so no one availing himself of this pub- 
lic charity need feel in the least humiliated. Thou- 
sands of deserving men, suffering temporary mis- 
fortune, through the medium of this lodging house 
have been saved from the humiliation of the peni- 
tentiary and the police station, and not to mention 
the possibility of degradation or the possible sub- 
jection to criminal influences through coming in 
contact with evil doers confined in such places. 

Buffalo's park system now embraces some l,'-20() 
acres, exclusive of contemplated acquisitions in con- 
gested portions of the city. The parks are scattered 
throughout the entire city, and, in each instance, 
the park commissioners strive to make each park 
a model of its kind. Competent critics have declared 



uifiOTllill 



iiii 



iiii' 




T.VBER PUiMP COMPA.NY 
Muiiufiicturers of Rotary and Centrifugal Pumps 

that the small [)arks of Buffalo are among 
the most beautiful in the country. 

Buffalo parks are intended for the 
|ilc;isure of citizens of Buffalo, and their 
use is not only constant but increasing 
steadily. A liberal policy is followed in en- 
couraging citizens to use the park lands, and 
all sorts of provisions are made for outdoor 
sports of all kinds, such as baseball, ten- 
nis, tjolf. lawn bowling, etc. 



lit II' ALII H.\HB<>h 
One of Buffalo's twenty-three elevators. Lake steamer unloading 




NEW PL.VNT OF THE STRONG STEEL FOUNDRY CO.MP.\NV 
-Manufacturers of -\cid Open-Hearth .Steel Castings. Also Nickel Chrome, Vanadium, and Manganese Steel Castings 



Payc Forti/-iiiie 



(IREATER BUFFALO 











'0r^ 




This is the largest paper b( 



)ox nia 



.. HIKT ('(iMl'AN V. I.ll> 
laimfactory in the world 



A feature of Delaware Park is the Zoo, located in the northeastern portion of the park. While this Zoo is not large, 
it is a great attraction for visitors and is frequented by thousands, particularly on Sundays and holidays. 

In South Park the city maintains its botanical gardens. Modern buildings house the displays, and the buildings are 
grouped artistically and form an exceedingly effective picture and central feature of the park. Hou.sed in the buildings 
are some rare collections of tropical plants and fliowers of all kinds, including some of rarest and finest orchids to be 




CopyriylU, iyi3 



liLl'lW1.0 .'5 SLl'EKU LOCATION 



c oce&N 



Butfalo's wontlerful coiiiiiiei'cial and industrial progress, as has been indicated in this Ijouk, is due iu large measure to its natural 
strategic location. Situated at the foot of the (ircat Lakes, it is the bottle-neck tlirough which the comuierce of thL^ rich section of 
the United St;ites gravitates. The $130,000,000 Barge Canal, now being constructed by New York State and to be completed iu 
1915, will give Buffalo water connections with the .Vtlantic seaboaril on a scale of such size as to give this city the advantages of a 
seaport. .VII the raw materials to be found in the Great Ijakes region can be assembled by water routes in Buffalo and transmitted 
in canal barges at the low freight rates afforded by such transport;ition facilities to New York or Boston without breaking bidk. 

Page Forty-hro 



(; HEATER BXFFAEO 



seen in this country. 
The city also maintains 
a forestry department, 
the duty of which is to 
look after the shade 
trees on all the streets 
of the city. Buffalo is 
noted for its beautiful 
shade trees, and its 
citizens, realizing the 
important part they 
play in the making of 
a beautiful city, do all 
in their power to pre- 
serve them, and to 
plant new trees where- 
ever required, all of 
which expense is met 
bv general citv tax. 




PL.\NT OF THE NIAGAR.\ LITHOGKAPH COMPANY 

Manufacturers of Lithograph .\dvertisinff. Paper and Metal. Plant covers an .Area of T\\ 



rid One-half .\cre.s 



RELIGIOX AND EDUCATION 

In educational facilities Buffalo is amply qualified 
to meet all its requirements. Nearly 70,000 pupils at- 
tend the public schools of the city and, in addition, about 
25,000 attend the parochial schools. 

In addition to high and technical schools, to meet 
its needs, Buffalo maintains, free of expense to bene- 
ficiaries, a truant school, open-air schools, medical school 
inspection, special classes for the mental defectives, anrl 
a daily census system to enforce the Compulsory Edu- 












OITT!- 



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CL.VWSO.N & WILSO.N COMI'.iXY 
Wholesale Dry Goods 



MAY-POLE AT CAZEXOVIA 
PARK 

cation Law. The city 
also carries on vocational 
.school work, and other 
special activities of its 
.school department in- 
clude manual training, 
domestic science, art 
instruction, domestic 
arts, evening schools, 
vocation schools, kinder- 
garten work, and in- 
struction in German in 
grammar schools. 

Upwards of two hun- 
dred churches, repre- 

riHje Forty-three 



CtREATKR lilFFAl.O 




SUMMIT PARK AXD AMHERST ESTATES 

Showing some of the hand.some homes lately erected on these properties in the North 
Main Street residential section 

sentiiij; more than thirty ilenoiniiiations and including foreign as well as English institutions, devote themselves to the 
religious welfare of the city. 

ESTHETIC BUFFALO 
Esthetic Bufi'alo centers about the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, which, through the generosity of Mr. John Joseph 
Albright of this city, has been proWded with a palatial art building, named after the donor the Albright Art Gallery 
and located on a bluff oxerlooking the lake in Delaware Park. Tlie Academy was organized in November, 186'2, and 
was incorporated in December of the same year, "to promote and cultivate the fine arts and to that end to establish and 
maintain in the city of Buffalo a permanent art building or buildings and collections of paintings, .sculpture, engravings, 
and other works of art, an art library and art schools adequately equipped and having courses of instruction and prac- 
tice, and generally to foster art in all its braiiches." 




RE.SIDENCE OF LEWIS J. BENNETT 
PfKjr Forty-four 



RE.SIDENCE OF THE LATE KDWARD H. BITLER 



(GREATER BTFFALO 




BESI I 



HESIDE.VCK OI" JOHN IJ. I.AHKIN 



It was an ambitious plan which the oriii'inal members of the Acaciemy promulgated, but many of them are still liv- 
ing to enjoy the fruits of their labor and to realize that every detail of the plan has been carried out. 

The art school associated with the Academy has done, and is doing, most commendable work. In the advanced 
classes the standard of scholarship is high. The corps of instructors comprise artists of distinguished ability. The fees 
for instruction are extremely moderate. There are classes in drawing, painting, and modeling from the antique and 
from life, in composition, decorative design, metal work, wood-carving, bookbinding, etc. Scholarships of limited num- 
ber are awarded to students whose work shows exceptional earnestness and advancement. 

The influence of the art school upon Buffalo, esthetically considered, is immeasurable. The students are from all 




(EXTRAL PARK 
Some of the Beautiful Homes built in Central Park during the past two years 



Piific Forty-fir 



r,R EATER HIKFAEO 





~tfga*HW I /^' JV 



XYE PARK 

lUustratiDg resiliences recently built on only two streets. Middlesex Road and Chatham Avenue, of this large subdivision 

walks of life, and the demand for instruction has been so 
insistent that night classes are maintained, which are at- 
tended by young men and women who are obliged to work 
during the day time. Many of these students have an 
inherent love of art and res])onci to this desire by attending 
the classes. Others 
have artistic ability 
and are employed in 
vocations where fur- 
ther a d d i t i o n a 1 
knowledge is of much 
value to them in 
their work. To per- 
fect themselves in 

this work, they at- ^^f!* A'»t*'^'FC^*J fK-Vi^ iW*^! ''' ' llH^ ^"^'^ "'*^ *'"* s^**""' ^^''1'""* 'lie loss 

of time from their daily employment. 

ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY 

The Albright Art Gallery has been 
cluiractcrized by a competent critic 
"the finest example of pure Greek architecture to be found 
in America." It is a white marble structure '350 feet long 
(north and south) and 150 feet deep (east and west). Its 
central feature is based on the east porch of the Erectheum, 
on the Acropolis at Athens — perhaps the purest tj-pe of 
Ionic architecture — especially appropriate for an art build- 
ing, in that it typifies the spirit of feminine grace, liglit- 
RKsiDKXCK i)K si'KNCKR KELLOGG iicss, dignity, and refinement, as distinguished from the 





RESIDENCE OF 
fH.\RLES H. AVILLI.WIS 



r.R EATER IHFFAEO 




E.NI'HAMi; ■]■ 
Adjoining Delaware Park. Sli».i\viii 



i'f:mh Ks'i' i'\iiK 
imrtitin of le^ijeiires recently completed 



massiveness and se\er- 
ity of the Doric and 
the too hixurious Cor- 
inthian. 

Another institution of 
which Bufi'alonians are 
justly proud is the Buf- 
falo Society of Natural 
Sciences. The mem- 
bers of this society are 
doing much effective 
work along the lines 
indicated by the organ- 
ization's name. \t pres- 
ent the society is housed 
in the Bufl'alo Public 
Library building, but 

it owns a fine site of land near the Albright Art Gallery and some day will have a permanent home of its own there. 
The home will be of a character similar to the Historical Building and the Albright .\rt Gallery. 

One of the tasks which the society has performed regularly for many years is the conducting of courses of lectures 
throughout the winter months. These lectures are free to all who may be interested in them, and the lecturers are among 

the foremost scientists 
of this country. The 
society also has a paid 
lecturer, who pays con- 
stant visits to the pub- 
lic schools of the city 
to deliver illustrated 
lectures upon topics 
which dovetail with 
tile school curriculum. 
From time to time, 
this lecturer, who is 
a scientist of high 
standing, visits various 
parts of the world to 
make original investi- 
gations, and the knowl- 
edge so acquired is 
imparted by lecture 
antl in pamphlet form 
to the society mem- 
bers and others who 
may be interested. 

HISTORIC 
BUFFALO 

In the Buffalo His- 
torical Society, the 




nmn s-eye view of residexti.\i, district between- bttff.\lo .\nd tox.\vvand.\ 

.showing two picturesque suburbs, Delawanda Heights ani.1 Delawanda Park 



Pai/e Forlii-si'iTn 



GREATER BUFFALO 



c'itv has all (>r;;aiiization winch 
is in a position for all time to 
come to preserve the priceless 
relics and treasures associated 
with the life of the municipality 
and its development and progress. 
The home of this society is a 
magnificent building overlooking 
the lake in Delaware Park. It 
is a structure which was erected 
by the State of New York during 
the Pan-American Exposition, and 
later, by legislative act, became 
the home of the society. 

Another institution which has 
been doing good work that will 
become more \aluable as time 




fe^^ 




WORKS OF THE BUFF.VLO CEMENT CO.MrA.W, LID. 
Producers of Crushed and Building Stone 

goes on is the Niagara Frontier Landmarks Association. 
This organization has for its primarv' object the marking 
of all historic places upon the Niagara Frontier. Com- 
pared to the wealth of the Old World in historic matters, 
it is very true this countrv. and more particularly this section 



EXCrRSIOX STE.\MER ENTEHINCi HARBOR 

of the United .States, has very little to offer. Neverthe- 
less, events have transpired here which have had their 
eflect upon the entire world and the world's histon.-; 
hence they have their appropriate and high place in 
all that pertains to the life of nations. 

Practicallv :i!l the imjiortant land operation of the 




East Delavan .Avenue Plant 




Essex Street I'lant Mechanic Street Plant 

BUFFALO PLANTS OF THE WEBSTER-CITIZENS ICE COMP.ANT 
Capacity, 150,000 tons of manufactured ice per annuiu 



Patje Forhf-eiijht 



(; HEATER BUFFALO 






'- ^ :EEi PPP r-r.,, ^ -^ ~^ ^KtW' 









WAREHOUSE AXU OIFICES OF THE ALLIM. ^t CUKV (O.MIANY 
Wholesale Paper Dealers. (The cover paper used on this publication was fxu-nished by this company) 



War of 181-.?, that la^t struggle 
with England, took place on 
the Niagara Frontier, and this 
section of the countr}- fairly 
teems with points of interest 
pertaining to that war. One 
of the incidents of that war 
was the burning of Buffalo> a 
deed which was performed by 
the British and their Indian 
allies so thoroughly that only si 
single house was left standing 
in this city. All of the more 
important places pertaining to 
the war have been marked with 
bronze tablets by the association, 
and the work is still going on. 
The association, however, does 
not confine itself to the marking 

of historic places connected with military operations. Its scope is wide, and in the eyes of the members of the associa- 
tion, the site of the first school house erected in Buffalo and llic place where La Salle conslructed the fi^st sailboat to 

traverse the Great Lakes are of equal im- 
portance. Nor is history in the making 

overlooked. Immediately at the close of 

the Spanish-American War, a huge boulder, 

suitably inscribed, was placed at the Front 

as a memorial to the members of the 13th 

L'nited States Infantry who gave up their 

lives incidental to that struggle. 

This boulder, by the way, overlooks 

the ruins of Fort Erie, just across Niagara 

River, in Canada, where some of the 

bloodiest struggles of the War of 181 '2 

took place. The boulder is located on 

the site of Fort Porter, a United States 

army post, maintained here for many years by the Federal Government, and from which the soldiers in whose memory 

the boulder was dedicated departed for the war. 




BIFEALO llAKliOK — GROUP OF LAKE \ E.-S.SELS 





O.JTH REGIJIEXT ARMORY 



74th KEGl.ME.NT ARMORY 



Paf/e Foriii-Diii'' 



fiRKA IKH lUFFALO 




WORKS OK THE SfHOKLLKOIT, llAKTKORD A HAXXA COMPAXY 

Manufacturers of High-graiie Coal Tar Dies and Chemicals 




PLAXT OF THE MCKIXXOX DASH CO.MPAXT 
Manufacturers of Carriage and Automobile Dashes and Fenderg 



BUFFALO AS A 

CO^•^•ENTION 

CITY 

Buffalo's pre-emi- 
nence as a convention 
city is the natural result 
of central location, un- 
excelled hotel acconinio- 
ilations, the attractive- 
ness of the city and its 
environs, and the enter- 
prise of her citizens in 
bringing these facilities 
to the attention of the 
world. 

In many instances 
the first consideration in 
choosing the place for a convention 
is accessibility. If an out-of-the- 
way point, with inferior railroad 
ser^•ice, is selected, it invariablv 
means that the attendance will de- 
crease, because members will balk 
at uncomfortable travel and in- 
creased expense, and the conven- 
tion will fail in numbers. This 
objection cannot apply to Buffalo 
with any organization having the 
greater part of its membership east 
of the Mississippi River, because 
if you draw a great circle with a 
radius of JOO miles, its center at 
Buffalo, it will include more than 
half the popidation of the I'nited 




Page Fifty 



KIX.SEV A\].M_h. loHKMhW 
The residences illustrated are located on one street of this sect 



ion and have been built in the last two years 



CRK ATER BUFFALO 



States ami two-thirds of 
the people of Canada. 
Tills means that these 
millions of people are 
within a night's ride, or 
less, of Bufl'alo. It is 
midway between Chica- 
go and Boston, Cincin- 
nati and Montreal 
Cleveland and Syracuse, 
Pittsburgh and Toronto. 
New York or Philadel- 
phia, and Indianapolis. 
Detroit, and Sunbury, 
and travelers have the 
choice of seventeen trunk 




rr,ANT 

Manufac 



)1 THE HOrCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, IM . 
turers of Automobile Wire Wheels, Drop Forgings, and .\jcle.s 




lines of railroad, including the 
most luxurious and fastest trains 
in the world. In summer these 
facilities are increased by the 
fleets of ten passenger steamship 
lines plying the Great Lakes. 

Just as important is the 
proper accommodation of \'isit- 
ors after they arrive in the con- 
vention city, and Buffalo is not- 
ably well equipped in this way, 
her hotels not being excelled in 
equipment or ser^^ce by those 



PLANT OF THE ONiakid i',I,-m 111' 
COMPANY 

Manufacturers of Crackers, Cakes, 
and Biscuits 

of any American city. The lead- 
ing hotels are models of modern 
construction and furnishings, and 
they are supplemented by smaller 
hotels in other sections, so that a 
\nsitor has a wide choice in the 
location of his temporary head- 
quarters, down town in a business 
section or in the quiet of the 
residence sections, and he is able 
to find clean rooms and good 
meals at the price he wishes to 
pay and under either the Euro- 
pean or American plan. 




THE JOHN KA.M MALTING CO.MPANY 
Pneumatic Drum House, Capacity, 2,500,000 Bushels of JIalt 



Page Fifty-one 



GREATER BUFFALO 









"iiifll. 



WHITE lil ILDIXG 



Aiiotlier im- 
portant essential is 
suitable meeting 
places for conven- 
tions. In this re- 
sjiect Buffalo leads 
the world, having 
two splendidly 
equipped conven- 
tion halls owned 
and maintained 
by the city. The 
larger of these two 
halls is known as 
the Auditorium 
and is located on 
Broad w a y not 
more than eight 
minutes" walk from 
the business center 
of the city. This 
great building was designed principally for moving exhibits, 
and for this purpose the floor of the main exhibition hall is 
underlaid with power conduits and drainage tile. The floor 
sj)ace in this great room is nearly .50,000 square feet, every 
inch of which is available and useful because of the splendid 
lighting of the building either in daylight or at night. At 
the rear is an administration building, including two large 







liUlLDEHS KXCHANtiK 



halls and a number of offices and 
committee rooms. 

Elniwood Music Hall, located 
at Elmwood Avenue and Virginia 
Street, is adapted to smaller 
gatherings, seating 3,000 persons 
comfortably, and is splendidly 
equipped. Here is installed a 
splendid pipe organ, the gift of 
the late J. N. Adam, a formci 
mayor, and available for the use 
of conventions and entertain- 
ments; and there are other pub 
lie and semi-public halls available, 
so that any number of sections or 
divisions of the large conventions 
can be suitably taken care of in 
Buffalo. 

In addition to these great 
essentials, Buffalo has many 

Page Fifty-two 




INV.\LIDS HOIIE .-iNIl sluc.KM. INSTIirTi: 
World's Dispensary in rear for the manufacture t:>t L>r- I'ierce's Family .Medicines 



GREATER BIFFAEO 




attractions for visitors. BiifYalo is a clean city with more miles 
of asphalt-paved, tree-canopied streets than any other city in the 
world, and a \'iew of the residence sections from an elevation 
suggests a great park. Buffalo has a splendid park system 
with green acres scattered from north to south and connected 
with a magnificent system of boulevards. 

Unusual opportunities for recreation are afforded by Lake 
Erie and Niagara River, passenger steamers taking visitors to 
shore resorts, and thousands of private craft plying these waters 
in the sunmier season. Niagara Falls, one of the world's greatest 
marvels, is at Buffalo's doors and is easily reached at any time 
of day or night by train or trolley. 

BUFFALO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

Buffalo is fortunate in having one big central organization 
like the Buffalo Chamber of Conuncrce to look after the rapidly 



CHAMBER OI- COMMERCE BUILDING 

Seneca Street entrance 

increasing amount of 
work arising in Buffalo 
as in all large centers 
of population, which is 
not cared for by the 
municipal authorities 
or private institutions. 
The Buffalo Cham- 




ll.l.l'IIANT HOUSE, PARK ZOO, ERECTED AT A COST OF $.55,000 




A NEW ^1 A II I 



IN' buffalo: hospital for RESEARCH 



Paye Fifty-three 



GREATER BUFFALO 




White Building 



I'ruilf iitial Building 
SH ELTON SQUAEE 



>n\veaUh Trust Company 



ber of Commerce is recognized as one of the foremost in this country and its field of activities 
is very broad, not being confined solely to commercial and industrial work. Some idea of 
the work done by the Chamber may be had by mentioning the different departments main- 
tained by it, which include the Charities and Survey Bureau, Convention Bureau, Farm 
Bureau, Industrial Bureau, Publicity Bureau, Traffic Service Bureau. Transportation Bu- 
reau, and Vocational Guidance Bureau. In addition, there are allied with the Chamber of 
Commerce a Real Estate Association, a Retail Merchants' Association, and a Wholesale 
Merchants' Association. 




J.\C'K-KM1 1. lilUDC 



Page Fifty-four 



.SHKEr -ill. LI--, BIFF.VLO STOCK YARDS 

Second largest in the world, covering over 100 acre.s, and 
doing an annual business of over §100,000,000 



GREATER BUFFALO 





n H Ul IWifi, 



ELMWOOD MUSIC HALL 

Practically, two entire floors of the big thirteen- 
story Chamber of Coinnierce Building at Main and 
Seneca streets in Buffalo are devoted exclusively to 
the purposes of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce. 
In its office force the Chamber averages twenty-five 
employes as its permanent force, while the club and 
restaurant calls for a force of about thirty more 
employes. 

A brief summary of the acti\'ities of the various 
bureaus will give some idea of the work carried on 
by the Chamber at all times for Bufl'alo's benefit. 
Taking the bureaus in the order mentioned above, 
such a summarv would be as follows: 



7* 







TRANSMISSION ( Ar.l.i,^ 
Carrying high-power electric current acros.^ >.iagara River at Buffalo 







NEW YORK CEXTRAL FREIGHT YARDS AT E.VST BTFFALO 



Page Fifty-five 



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I'N'ION STOIK VARUS BAXK 



GERMA.N-A.MKKICAX BAXK 
Capital and Surplus, Sl.OOO.OdO. Resourres. SW.OOn.nnO 




Plifll'OSKU XF.W UriLDINt: OF Till". ( ITIZKXS BAXK OK BIFFALU 

Page Fifty-six 



Charities- and Siiriri/ — This bureau iuves- 
tigates all perniiinent orijanizecl local charities 
that appl}" for the eiulorscuient of the Buffalo 
Chamber of Coiiuiierce, and in no instance is 
such endorsement jji\en unless the business- 
like and rigid requirements of the bureau are 
met in a satisfactory manner. The bureau 
also investigates fake schemes of all kinds, 
advertising and otherwise, with a view to pro- 
tecting Buffalo business men against the fakers 
and in oriler that worthv charitable institutions 



GREATER RFFFALO 




and undertakings may command the sup- 
port and assistance which they rightly 
deserve. 

Coniention Bureau — The business of 
this bureau is to bring conventions to Buf- 
falo. As has been pre\iously pointed out, 
Buffalo's beauties, its accessibility, and ex- 
ceptional opportunity it offers for recreation 
of all kinds have made this city one of the 
foremost in the country as a popular place 
for tlie assembling of con\entions. The 
Chamber's Convention Bureau has com- 
plete files on all organizations, whether 



LITTELL BUILDING (nEW) 

State, interstate, national, or international m 
character, which has ever met in Buffalo or which 
are ever likely to meet here. It is the business of 
this bureau to keep in touch with all organizations 
holding conventions and ultimately induce them 
to meet here. The bureau is one of the most suc- 
cessful in the countrv, as is indicated bv the fact 




DE.VTON, CUTTIHK 

The largest exclusive Muisical Instrument House between New York and Chicago and the 
oldest in the United States, being established in 1S27 



MORG.\N Bl 11. M 



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GREATER BUFFALO 




that in lyi.'J Buf- 
falo entertained 
1'25 conventions of 
all kinds. 

Farm Bureau 
— The Erie Conii- 
tv Farm Bureau of 
the Buffalo Cham- 
ber of Commerce 
is organized for 
the purpose of pro- 
moting agriculture 
in Erie County. 
The services of the 
bureau are at the 
disposal of any 
farmer in Erie 
County without ex- plant of the biffalo gasoline motor company 

pense of any kind, Builders of Gasoline and Kerosene Marine Engines in all sizes from 3 to 150 H. P., and exporters to all parts of the world 

and merely on application to the bureau he 
will obtain expert advice with reference to 
any agricultural problem which may con- 
front him upon his farm. 

Co-operating with the Buffalo Chamber 
of Commerce in the operating of the farm 
bureau are the Erie County Board of Super- 
visers, the New York State Department of 
Agriculture, the New York 
State College of Agriculture, 
the Bureau of Plant Indus- 
try of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, the f^ 
Erie County Farm Bureau 
Association, the Erie Hai 
road Company, the New ^1 



York Central & Hudson 
Uiver Railroad Company, 
and the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna & Western Railroad 
Company. 
Industrial Bureau — Through this bureau the Buffalo 
Chamber of Conmierce not only seeks to bring new indus- 
tries to Buffalo, but also looks after interests of sucli in- 
dustries as are already located here. Li short, the work of 
tills bureau is to promote the industrial welfare of Buffalo 
in every possible manner. 

PuhJiciiij Bureau — The work of this bureau is to give 
publicity to such facts regarding Buffalo as may be of in- 
t<Mest at home or abroad. "The Live Wire," the official 
jiublication of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, published 
under the auspices of this bureau, is the medium through 
w hich its members are kept informed of Chamber activities. 





BUFFALO AND sriu KIJAX PLANTS OF THL UL l-l-\ I ITV 

DAIRY COMPA.NV 

Sixty wagons required for the Buffalo delivery of milk and cream 



Page F if ly-e it/lit 



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Niag;ir;i F 

Traffic Service Bureau — Through thi 



Olcott Beach Park 



t)un':ni tlie Chamber attends to tlie traffic problems of many manufacturing 
concerns of Buffalo. Expert railroad inon arc cni])loyed in the bureau for the doing of this work and such detailed serv- 
ice as auditing freight bills, collecting claims, tracing shipments, furnishing routes, etc., are among the daily tasks 
performed for its subscribers by the Traffic Service Bureau. 

Trauftportaiion Bureau — This is a new bureau recently installed by the Chamber with a view to looking after Buffalo's 




ri.vxT OF Tin; imisiiv company 

Makers of Sheet Metal Stamping for Automobiles. Motor Cycles. Bicycles. Cream Separators, Lawn Mowers, etc. 



Page Fiftn-nine 



OR EATER BIFF AI,0 




many important trans- 
l)ortation problems in an 
fxpert manner. All trans- 
|) o r t a t i o n matters, 
whetlier freight or pas- 
senger or whether by rail 
or water, command the 
immediate attention of 



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UUKKS OF THE BL KKALO FOKGE CO.MPAXV 

Ensiue arid Pump Boilers, Fan System of Heating. Ventilating, and Drying. Mechanical Draft 

Forges, Blowers, and Fans for all purposes 

this bureau if they have any direct or indirect bearing upon Buffalo. The 
bureau serves as a central disinterested agency through which the freight rates, 
passenger rates, train movements, harbor facilities, canal and canal terminal 
plans may be analyzed and comprehensively set forth to the users of such 
facilities in a way that will enable them to enjoy the fullest benefit of these 
most important advantages. 

Vocdtiniiiil Ciiidanre and Inihistrial Ediirctlion B)irrati—T\\h bureau 






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Br I 1 MM \\llMlj_~.vij, HAliUWAKE 

CO.Mi'.VXY 

Wholesalers of Har<l\vare, Cutlery. Builders' and 
Contrac-tors' .Supplies 




Standard Plant — Radiators 




Bond Plant — Boilers 








Pierce Plant— itadialurs Institute of Thermal Research 

BUFFALO PLANTS OF THE AMERICAN HADIAI'OR Cf)MPANV 



Payc Sixty 



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carries beneficial effects to the youth of Buffalo, as well as to 
the city's industrial life. In its raniification tlie work of this 
bureau reaches directly into the homes of our citizens, pene- 
trates the tap-root of our educational system, and lays a 
foundation of permanency upon which to base the successful 
operation of Buffalo inihistry and industries. 

Retail Merchanlx' Axsneinliou — .\s is the case witli all 
allied organizations of the riiamber. iiiembers of such a.sso- 





STORE OF C. A. WEED & COMPAN'Y 
Three floors devoted exclusively to Men's and Young Men's Clotliing 



:)'s trade zone, and this practice 



UKIDLE P.\TH, 1 IIAI'IN I'AHKU \ "i 

ciations must be members of the Thamber of Commerce. 

Throush the Retail Merchants' Association all matters hav- 

ing any bearing whatsoever upon retail business of Buffalo 

are considered and passed upon by this a.ssociation. 

Wliolesale Merchants' Association — This association does 

for the wholesale business in Buffalo what the Retail ^ler- 

chants' Association does for the retail trade. In addition. 

the association makes a practice of conducting trade excursions to places within Buffalo; 

has gained for Buffalo much desirable publicity and trade. 

Real Estate Association — As below set forth, the objects of this association include the fi>llowing: 

"To advance the real estate 
interests of Buffalo and its citizens 
by fostering public improvements, 
and an equitable system of assess- 
ments and taxation and the en- 
forcement of laws for the protec- 
tion, welfare, and convenience of 
real estate owners and leasehold- 
ers: and generally to de%'ise, ad- 
vocate, and support legislation 
calculated to improve the city 
of Buffalo." 

These various bureaus and 
allied organizations, as well as the 
several committees of the Cham- 
ber, are prepared to cope with any 
[)roblem pertaining to the welfare 

Page Sixty-one 




MITIAL ELEVATOR 
Owned by Mutual Terminal Company. Capacity. 3,000,000 bushels 



GRKATER BUFFALO 




lUVEK ELEVATTON 



iJTU*€mTt^ ] 



BUFFALO TERMINAL - D.L.jW.R.R. CO 



NEW BUFFALO TERMINAL DEPOT LACKAWANNA RAILROAD 

of the city, and, indeed, that is tlie sole test appUed with reference to any ((uestion which may arise as to whether tlie 
Chamber shall interest itself in any projected or contemplated work. 



A BRIEF SUMMING UP 

In what has been set forth, it is clear that Buffalo is a busy city, populated with active people, which is an excellent 
thing, for this makes for a wholesome life and hii;h moral tone. Buffalo is not noted for its idle rich, nor is there a leis- 
ure class here likely to foment .social irregularities. 

So far as the future is concerned, Buffalonians rest assured that their path will be one of progress. In commerce, 
- - art, and manufacture the 

city's position is certain. Its 
citizens are already actively 
engaged in all these branches 
and are conducting their 
operations on a broad scale, 
not only with regard to the 
present but with an eye to 
the distant future. .\nd in 
all other matters which make 
for good citizenship, social 
conditions, pleasantsurround- 
ings, and ideal living con- 
ditions, nothing is being 
left untlone here to make 
Hutfalo the best city in 
I he world in which to live 
and in which to work. 
George C. Lehmaxx, 
liidu.slnal Com m ix.iioner, 
Buffalo Chamber (if 
Com III free. 




COMl'LLlt: PKhS.S 1(1 IHK .\l.\l IHKWS-XORTHKI P UUHk> 



NOTK. 



WrjtiriK. DesiKning. Engravinfi:. Printing, Binding 
Publishers of "The Buffalo Express" 
-This beautiful iiook planned and pro<lui-ed by this concern 



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Motur Boat liacing at Motor Boat C'lulj 









Hydro-Aero Planing, Niagara River 



Docks at Motor Boat Club 




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SOME SOLKCES OF AMISEMENT AT Bl FFALO 



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Steamer "Sep;unlIjee"^Biiffaln and Cleveland 



Lackawanna Limited — Buffalo and Xew York 







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Steamer "City of Detroit" — Bviffalo and Detroit 




Petinsylvania Flyer— Buffalo, Phila<leli.lii;i, X.w Yi.ik. an, I Wa^-liiiinl..!, 



Lehigh Valiey Bla.k Diamonil — Buffali., Phihiilelphia. 
and Xew York 




Excursion Steamer ■' Canadiana " — Buffalo and Crystal Beach Steamer '• -Northhuid "—Buffalo and Chicago 

TUANSPORTATION LINES HAVING THEIR TERMIXI-.S AT BUFFALO 

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New York Central Lines — Twentieth Century Limited 
Buffalo, New York, and Chicago 



West Shore Buffulonian — Buffalo and New York 





New Yoik Central Enijiire State Express — BufTalu ami New York 



Grand Trunk Litiiited- — Bulialu, Turuutu, and Muntrcal 





Canadian Pacihc Limited — Buffalo, Toionii,. and 
Canadian Northwest 



.Mirhi-un Central Wdv.^i inr Hullal... Ih-n.i, 
TRANSPORTATION LINES HAVING THEIR TERMINI'S AT BUFFALO 




SPAULDING & SPAULDING 
Fleet of high-power Fierce-Arrow tVIotor Trucks, each of five tons capacity, used exclusively by this firm for the city delivery of coal 



Page Sixty-five 



G R E A T E R R F F F A T, O 




Country 



Bufialo 



Twentieth Century 




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University 





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Ellicott Square — H<inn' of Klliiott Cliil) 




Mc.lnr Boat 



Canoe 
TWELVE BUFFALO CLUBS 



Automobile 



I'aije Sixly-six 



THE TONAWANDAS 





I'.UiDS-EYE VIEW OF THE TONAWANDAS 

Shuwing Portions of Lumber Interests, Harbor, and Miles of Dockage 



BOATING can be enjoyed on the 
Niagara River, Tonawanda 
Creek, Ellicott Creek, and 
the canal, eacli of wliich has special 
places of beaut}' and attractions of 
its own. Automobiling both for 
pleasure and business finds many 
votaries. Splendid State roads radi- 
ate in all directions and two paved 
thoroughfares connect with Buffalo. 
The surrounding country is quite 
level, offering no obstacles even in 
wet weather. To sum it all up, the 
Tonawandas are one prosperous, 
growing industrial center, located 
where rail and water compete to ren- 
der the best ser\-ice for the smallest 
rates; where people are contented to 
live and where they are served by 
every convenience modern civiliza- 
tion can desire. Bounded on the 
north by Niagara Falls, on the east 
by Lockport, on the south by Buffalo, 
and on the west by the great Niagara 




THE SWEENEY BUILDINU, NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y. 
Containing Offices of tlie Tonawanda Power Company 



Par/e Sirly-scren 



THE T O \ A AV A X D A S 



River anil (atiadu. but 
williout bounds so far as 
opportunity and possi- 
bilities are concerned, 
we can truly say this 
spot is the key to tin- 
Niagara Frontier devel- 
opment. In recognition 
of its wonderful possibil- 
ities for growth, the Fed- 
eral Government h a s 
granted an additional 
quarter of a million dol- 
lars to make its harbor 
the best and safest on 
the Great Lakes system. 
A description of the 
Niagara Frontier would 
no more be complete 
without the Tonawandas 
than an arch without the 





Dock Plant and Ore Piles 
NI.\G.\RA FURXACE.S AND BUILDINGS OF THE TONAWAXDA IRON AND .STEEL COMPANY 

Manufacturers of Niagara and Tonawanda Scotch Brands of Foundry and Malleable Pig Iron 




WOUKS OF THE BUFFALO BULT COMPANY 
North Tonawanda 



keystone or a lock without a key, for in- 
deed they are in the heart of the entire 
Frontier. These two prosperous cities, 
Tonawanda and North Tonawanda, 
constitute one commercial and industrial 
center with a combined popul.ition of 
■2."), (1(10. Their location is unique. The 
lake vessels from Chicago, Duluth, and 
all other ports on the Great Lakes enter 
the Tonawanda Harbor, bringing lum- 
ber, iron, and other merchandise — this 
being the foot of the Great Lakes navi- 
gation. Here also is the head of the new 
thousand-ton Barge Canal, bearing the 




FELTON HIGH SCHOOL 



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Puije Sivty-eif/ht 



THE TOXAWAXDAS 




iNAWANDA. X. Y. 

One of tlie Laryiest " Direct-to-Con.-;unier" Shippers of Building Material 
in this section of the country 



raw and finished material to tido- 
water at New York. Here at tiie 
Tonawandas is the point wiiere 
the great shipping break bulk. 
Here also the great trunk line rail- 
roads bring their facilities of trans- 
portation. No less than nine roads 
serve the shippers of this industrial 
center which enjoys the distinction 
of being the third largest freight 
point in the State of New York. 
Here manufacturing sites with rail 
and water facilities are plenty 
and reasonable in price. 

Niagara Falls electric power 
furnishes light for domestic and 
municipal purposes as well as 
power for many of the large and 
small industries. The manufac- 
tures comprise pig iron, structural steel, nuts and bolts, automatic musical instruments, steam pumps and blowers, 
radiators and boilers, paperboard roofing and paints, merry-go-rounds and carousals, gas engines, motor boats, silk 

gloves and un- 
derwear, choco- 
late, novelties, 
paper bags, 
abrasives, fiber 
products, brick 
and tile, chains, 
a n d m a n y 
others including 
all forms of 
lumber produce 
anil bo.x shooks. 
As is always 
the case in any 

wide-awake industrial city, the esthetic things that make residence therein a pleasure are not neglected in the Tona- 
wandas. Paved streets, the number of which grows every year, provide pleasant driving; municipal water and sewer 
systems afford ample sanitation: churches 
of every important denomination offer a 
welcome to all. Two splendidly equippetl 

Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. buildings fur- 

f . 

nish safe and wholesome places for young 

people to enjoy their recreation. 

The public is served by ample passenger 

transportation facilities. During part of the 

year there are ninety passenger trains a day 

besides three trolley lines, two of which have 

cars every half hour in each direction, and 

the third line has cars every fifteen minutes. 




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MILLS AMI -i AHI>s (IF THE EASTERN LUMBER CO.MP.VNY 
Covering an area of 35 Acres. Capacity, 60,000,000 feet Annually 




rilE BUFFALd ITMr COMl'AXV, MiKlil 



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NIAGARA FALLS 



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CANADIAN FALLS 



SOME PERTINENT FACTS REGARDING INDUSTRIAL NIAGARA FALLS 

FIVE power companies are now developini; 
about 450,000 electrical horse jjowcr, 
ec|iially divided between the American ami 
the Canadian sides of the river. Large suppiv ni' 
power now available. 

Industrial concerns can locate a plant on each 
side of the river — one in the United States and 
one in Canada — and operate the two plants with 
one execulive force, besides being free from tariff 
complications. 

Shipping facilities are unexcelled, with nine 
trunk lines of railroad entering here and water 
transportation as well by the Niagara River, 




WHIRLPOOL K A I'll) 



VLONU NIAl.AKA l.Olil,.!. liAILUUAD 




THE HOME OF SHREDDED WHE.\T, NI.\GARA FALLS, X. Y. 

The Cleanest, Most Hygienic Food Factory in the World. Visited by Nearly 100,000 
Persons Every Year 



Great Lakes, and Erie Canal. Over 
1,000,000 freight cars are handled in 
the joint railroad yards of Niagara 
Falls annually. 

The value of the annual exports 
and imports from Niagara Falls, as 
shown by the report of the United 
.States custom house, is over $.50,- 
000,000. Over 1,100,000 passengers 
arrive from foreign territory' annually. 
()\er 7,.'!00 passenger trains are in- 
spected. Over 150,000 pieces of bag- 
gage are stamped by customs officials 
annually. Over 4,100 express cars 
are sealed for transportation through 
Canada anmiallv. The number of 



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NIAGARA FALLS 




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POWEK IlorSE NIAGARA FALLS POWEK (.UMl'A.NY 

freifjht cars inspected and sealed for transporfafioii through Canada annually is -i.j-J.OOO. The number of entries at the 
Niagara Falls port is over '^0.000 annually. 

The post-oflSce receipts of the city of Niagara Falls for the year ending June ;i(), 1!)13, were $136,914.68. The re- 
ceipts for the year 
ending June 30, 191-2, 
were $124,412.62. For 
July, 1913, the post- 
office receipts were 
$14,818.45, as com- 
pared to $11,669.34 
in July, 1912, and the 
August receipts were 
$18,638.42, as coin- 



WORKS OF THE DOBBIE FOINI^HV AND MACHINE COMPANY 

pared to $13,513.39 the corresponding month the year before. The estimated 
investment in power development and manufacturing establishments in 
Niagara Falls is over $75,000,000. The number of operatives in industrial 
concerns in Niagara Falls is over 10,000, with an annual wage of nearly 
$10,00().00(). 





AMERICAN FALLS 

Nearly all of the alvmiinum in the 
world is made here in three big plants. 
More abrasive materials are made here 
than in any other city. There are also 
large paper and flour mills. Niagara 




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PLANT OF THE CARUOKINDL M COMPANY 



Vaije Seventy-one 



NIAGARA FALLS 



Falls is the fhciiiifal 
manufacturing center of 
the United States. 

The city of Xiagara 
Falls was incorporated 
in ISS'J. The population 
then was about 10,000. 
The population of Ni- 
agara Falls by the United 
States census of 1910 was 
30,445, as against 19,45'2 
in 1900, a gain of 56%, 




WOHK.S OF THE I-NTEKXATIONAL ACHESON-GRAPHITE COMPANY 



the largest in the State of New York for a city of this class, except Schenectady. The present population is undoubtedly 
between 35,000 and lO.OOO. 

The assessed valua- 
tion of the city of Niag- 
ara Falls for the year 
1913 was over $35,000,- 
000, which is about one- 
half that of the entire 
county of Niagara. 

The landed area of 
the city of Xiagara Falls 




WORKS OF THE UNION CARBIDE CO.MP.^W 



is 6,970 acres, which includes 41 '2 acres in the 
New York State reservation at Niagara. 

The building permits granted during the year 
191'2 amounted to over $1,700,000. (he greatest 
building acti\'ity in the history of the city. 

Niagara Falls has three State banks, a trust 
company, and a savings bank, with lolal deposits 



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POWER HOUSE, HYDRAULIC POWER COMP.\NY 

^ of over $9,000,000, and a total capital and surplus 
of over $900,000. 



BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF rilE ONTARIO POWER COMP.V.\i- 



ALONG THE GORGE 
Sceae on International Belt Line 



Page Seveniy-two 



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LOCKPORT 



INCOMPARABLE advantages give Lockport a unique 
place on the Niagara Frontier. Nature has been 
no less generous to its '20,000 people than man in 
its material progress. The city enjoys these combined 
benefits which appeal to the traveler and emphasize 
the claim which Lockport makes on being unexcelled. 
Lockport is in the geographical and marketing cen- 
ter of the noted Niagara fruit belt, unexcelled by any 
other apple and peach section in the world. The wealth 
of this productiveness is reflected in Lockport's pros- 
perity undisturbed by periodical financial depressions 
felt elsewhere. Its varied manufacturing institutions, 
benefited by this great financial help, give to the city a 
year-aroimd thriftiness measured by millions of dollars. 
The outputs of its mills and factories yearly total over 
$8,168,000. Lockport feels that it fulfills the classic 
conditions which the ancients summed up as the ideals 
for existence. 

Railroad connections are most commendable. The 
Liternational Railway operates trains every half hour 
til Buffalo, Niagara Falls, the Tonawandas, and Olcott 
Beach, all within an hour's ride. The Buffalo, Roch- 
ester &• Lockport Railway and the New York Central 
Railroad Company give hourly service to Rochester and 
intermediate points on the east, vvhile the Central runs numerous trains to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and Rochester each 
day. The Erie and Central railroads send a score or more of freight trains from the city daily, while the Rome, Water- 
town & Ogdensburg, as a part of the New York Central .system, is but a few miles to the north. Li the matter of 

freight rates the city enjoys 
the distinction of being in 
the Buffalo zone, a great 
commercial center, enjoying 
all pri\ileges of a large city 
without the burdens of big 
rent, high taxes, etc., inci- 
dent to the crowded indus- 
trial center. 

Lockport is at the head 
of the new Barge Canal, 
and has that waterway of- 
fering splendid free trans- 
portation facilities to the 
Great Lakes and Atlantic 
Seaboard, soon to be aug- 
mented by the completion 

PLANT OF THE .SIMONDS M A.VUFACTUBING COMPANY of tWO SetS of terminal 




<_))•' lllE FAKiVlEK."- ANU MECHANICS 
SAVINGS BANK 




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LOCKTORT 




PLANT or THE rXITj;D IXDIHATED FIBHE COMPANY 



warehouses at a cost to the State 
of $,'500,000. Tliese terminals are 
ideally located in the industrial 
centers of the city. This canal will 
give direct connection with Panama 
steamers at New York, insuring 
low freight rates to the South. 
Southwest, and all Pacific coast- 
rate points. 

lyockport's hydraulic power, 
plentiful and clieaj), is backeil by 
unlimited electric power from Ni- 
agara Falls at low rates, obtained 
by a special grant to the citv, an advantage which, among other things, secured for the city the Simonds Manufacturing 
Company of Chicago, emplopng several hundred hands, after months of competition with a score of other cities. 

The phvsical iidvantages already enumerated are not all that Lockport proudly possesses and offers to share with 
new citizens. Statistics show that the city ranks among the first in the country in the number and diversity of industries. 

There are 126 in all, wth $1-2,000,000 capital, 
employing 3,169 people. The register of in- 
dustrial facts shows the principal items of 
manufacture here are pulp and paper, pulp 
and fibre goods, steel saws, edge tools, dies, 
etc.. printing and bookmaking. folding boxes, 
building glass and glassware, linen goods, 
automobile parts, tackle blocks, men's shirts, 
collars and white goods, cuttins; and drving 
machinery, cotton goods, plumbing supplies, 
grain machinery, iron goods, paving material, 
qiuirried stone, fruit and vegetables, canning 
and preser\nng, flour, milk bottles, and sev- 
enty-six other articles used in the different 
trades. 

The city has three banks with combined 
resources of about $1'2, 000,000, and is the 
home of the first Union School in the country, now the Lockport High School, nine district schools, four parochial schools, 
one semin;iry> and two business colleges, with en\'iable records at Albany educational bureaus. There are twenty-one 
churches, embracing the principal denominations, a magnificent new City Hospital, a Y. M. C. A., new Federal build- 
ing, three modern department stores, several theaters, and other excellent business blocks and modern office buildings 
comparing with any in l.-irger cities, several large hotels, two rlaily newspapers, the Lockport I'nion-.'^iDi. and the Lockport 





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BUILDING OF THE LOCKPOUT rOTTO.V B.\TTIXG CO.MPAXY 



Page Seventy-four 



LOCKPORT 




PLANT OF THE LOCKPORT .GLASS COMPANY 



Daily Joiinial. 
one German 
weekly, T It e 
Lock pari Wocli- 
cnhlati, a n <1 
large free 
library. 

Its local 
street car sys- 
tem, modernly 
equipped and 
operated, radi- 
ates in five di- 
rections from the center of business. Its Niagara River water supjily was recently installed at a cost of three-quarters 
of a million dollars. The city has two telephone systems, two telegraph comj)anies, two express companies with hourly 
service to Bufl'alo and Rochester, and a wealth of musical, social, and literary clubs, fraternities, and lodges. 

As the county seat of Niagara County it possesses the handsome new $'200,000 court house, the new Niagara County 

Almshouse (said by the State Board of Charities to be the model of the 
Empire State), the Niagara County Jail, and county clerk's office. The 
State Odd Fellows Home is located here, together \\ ith Odd Fellows Orphan- 
age. Good roads lead into the county seat from all directions. The city 
also possesses the Home for the Friendless Orphan Asvlum. The Town 
and Country Club, with 
golf links and tennis 
courts, occupies one of 
the most delightful spots 
in the country. The 
Tuscarora Club offers 
the business and profes- 
sional men metropolitan 
service. A Masonic tem- 
])lc is planned. The 
Elks. Moose, Eagles. 
O d d Fellows, and 
Knights of Columbus 

are located in inviting quarters. Lockport's beautiful shaded streets have earned its popularitv. Lockport is conspic- 
uously the city of homes, and a great majority of the workingmen own their own homes. Labor conditions are most 
satisfactory. The workingmen's standard of citizenship is high, and, as a result, capital and labor have worked together 
on a basis of mutual interests, with Init few minor ilisputes. 





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RESIDKXCE OF WALLACE I. KEEP 





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PORTION OF LOCKS, 1,OOU-TON B.\RGE CAX.\L 



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PLANT OF THE UNITED PAPERBOAKO COMP.\NY 



Pa(je Seventy-five 






DEPEW I 



DEPEW — named aftt-r the famous orator, Chauncev ]M. Depew, is located four miles from the citv hue of Buffalo. 
It is a hustling suburb containing about 5,000 people. 
Seventeen large industries are now located at Depew and give employment to about 4,000 workmen, with 
a monthly pay-roll of nearly $300,000. 

Four trunk lines — the New York Cen- | 
tral, Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, and 
Erie railroads — pass through the city. 
The New York Central and Lehigh Valley 
terminals give Depew direct connection 
with the Lake Shore, Nickel Plate, Bufialo, 
Rochester & Pittsburgh, Buffalo & Susque- 








Axle For^e Plant 



Steel Castings Plant 

hanna, and Pennsylvania railways to the south and 
west, and with the G. T. R. and C. P. R. via Niagara 
Falls to Canada. 

Some industrial facts relative to Depew — unexcelled 
shipping facilities, Niagara Falls electric power, un- 
limited supply of Lake Erie water in a reservoir hold- 
ing 3,000,000 gallons anil an additional reserve res- 
ervoir containing 10.000,000 gallons. It has macadam- 
ized streets, cement sidewalks, natural gas, electric lights, modern sewer system, good schools, churches, hotels, plenty 
of cheap labor, and low tax rate. It has two first-class trolley lines and thirty passenger trains daily to Buffalo, excellent 
fire protection, two free postal deliveries dailv, good residential acconunodations, etc. 




M:ille:.l.le Iron Plant 
PLANTS OF THE GOULD COUPLER COMPAXY 

Manufacturers of Couplers, Steel Forgings, and Car Lighting .Systems 








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